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Hello,
All those things are NOT eSignal inventions. Not even close. Many apps (including AB) had them WAY WAY WAY BEFORE eSignal.
1. Symbol Linking - was available in AmiBroker since very beginning (via "New Linked" / "New Linked Chart")
2. Cursor tracking - was available in AmiBroker since very beginning (till today AmiBroker is superior in having actually
three independent selector lines - one is main selector line, the other two are RANGE markers that are tracked
across all charts)
3. Interval linking - I find it the least useful feature (never saw any need to use it myself) but if you want it can be added very
easily
4. Floating windows - it is probably the oldest feature in the world. It is as old as Windows. And even older.
Amiga version of AmiBroker had floating windows from VERY beginning (back in 1995). Apple Mac has all applications based
on floating windows. It was also featured in Delphi (back in 1995), QuoteTracker and zillions of other applications.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Brown" <see3d@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Chart linking and cursor tracking
> One of the reasons that developers do not copy each other exactly
> (patents aside), is because the "look and feel" of an application is
> a copyright issue. The GUI of an application is a creative work of
> art. If you ever designed your own app, you come to appreciate just
> how much of the work goes into the GUI. I would say that 80+% of the
> design time and code are trying to make the underlying functionality
> attractive and intuitive for the user. It is what makes or breaks an
> application.
>
> Dennis
>
> On Nov 25, 2007, at 11:20 AM, scourt2000 wrote:
>
>>
>> Regardless of what anyone may think of eSignal's charting
>> (specifically), in general, they certainly set the bar very high when
>> it came to the following chart/GUI elements which just about every
>> other charting package on the market has been playing catch-up on for
>> the past few years. I've been using these things for 4 years now in
>> my trading and they're real timesavers:
>>
>> 1. Symbol linking (option embedded in the title bar, color-coded)
>>
>> 2. Interval linking (option embedded in the title bar, color-coded)
>>
>> 3. Cursor tracking. On a per-chart basis one can set whether or not
>> the X movements (tracking time), denoted by vertical lines, sync-up
>> with other chart windows. I can have a tick/volume charts, 2 min
>> chart, 5 min chart, 30 min chart, etc. etc. all with cursor tracking
>> turned on and each of X movements will match up with the specific
>> price
>> bar in each timeframe. It's a fantastic way to see how the same
>> futures contract/security is acting among the different timeframes -
>> or-
>> how multiple symbols are moving in comparision to one another through
>> the same or multiple timeframes.
>>
>> 4. Title bars can be completely collapsed into just a thick-ribbed
>> line
>> to save screen space while still being able to do #1 and #2 above.
>>
>> It's a good thing that none of these "inventions" were ever patented
>> like that static price DOM trading ladder idea or we would all less
>> off
>> for it.
>>
>> One other thing about popping charts out of the main chart window so
>> they can float about onto other monitors:
>>
>> eSignal still has the coolest implementation of this. It's all
>> managed
>> from the title bar window of each chart and is super-intuitive. Why
>> all of the other charting packages just don't directly copy this idea
>> is beyond me. But, like the saying goes, if it that easy to
>> implement,
>> everyone would be doing it. Regardless, it must have been very time
>> consuming to implement and have everything so fluid for the user to
>> manipulate.
>>
>
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